Evan C.

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Co-Founder and CTO of an AI startup backed by Y Combinator.
Expert in building self-healing cloud infrastructure.
Proven track record in optimizing cloud costs through innovative solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI specialist with a focus on infrastructure optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

AiCloud InfrastructureKubernetesBackend DevelopmentContainer DeploymentData Simulation

Other Skills

LeadershipAgentless TechnologyPythonGolangElixirCloud APIsMatlabCGo (Programming Language)C++JavaUnixArduinoWindowsAmazon Web Services (AWS)

About

Building cool stuff with AI | spending my 20s breaking and fixing distributed systems | Bay Area born, YAML traumatized | Coffee-powered ☕

Experience

8 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Kestrel ai (yc f25)

Co-Founder & CTO

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

AI agents for self-healing cloud infrastructure. Backed by Y Combinator.

AICloud InfrastructureLeadership

Illumio

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid

Cool agentless kubernetes stuff

KubernetesAgentless Technology

Dnanexus

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr · Mountain View, California, United States

Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Lockheed martin

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Oct 2021 · 2 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Genie

Lead Software Adviser

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Saratoga, California, United States

Advising backend development

Backend Development

Rstor

Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

I built out a container deployment system that allows workloads to be run agnostically across various public CSPs, manipulating the various CSP’s and their APIs. The workloads were run on various compute
resources, allowing customers to drastically cut their cloud computing costs. Was Primarily written in Python, but pivoted to using Golang to ensure company consistency. - Patent Pending
Worked closely with CBO to onboard new customer engineering teams on to our product.
Created a local web server using Elixir to help test proof of concept ideas that RStor could potentially pursue in the near future.

Container DeploymentPythonGolangElixir

University of california, santa cruz

Environmental Science Research Assistant

Oct 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked in the Environmental Studies Lab of Associate Professor J. Elliott Campbell, PhD
Used Matlab to simulate compost distribution across California.
Worked with another undergraduate researcher to help bring their ideas into Matlab.
Computed the most efficient algorithm to allow the compost distribution to be more effective.
Designed script that could handle over 4000000 data points

MatlabData Simulation

Apple

Technical Specialist

Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Directed and managed customers through the device repair process.
Handled multiple appointments at a time regarding a variety of repair topics and options.
An immense product knowledge was required to advise customers towards which product would be best for them or their businesses.

Los gatos theater

Interim Manager

Aug 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Los Gatos, California

Learned to work in a fast paced environment serving food/servicing customers.
As a manager, I would manage technical issues, employee breaks, and customer feedback.
Responded to company and event emails, allowing me to manage and create events for our
theatre.